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Monday, October 21, 2013

Pin looms play well with others

I end up talking with and reading about the works of people who, like me, really like small hand looms. It is easy to forget that there are a lot of great looms out there and there are many ways to combine weaving styles. These are some examples from my blanket closet. This blanket combines pin loom weavies with cloth strips woven on a rigid heddle loom. I like being able to make large swatches of a cloth to order, but the pin loom makes such a great product that I moved away from rigid heddle.

Heart Like A Wheel

Blue Squares

<---- Another very old piece. The intention was to float the contrasting squares on the black strips made with an inkle type loom.

The piece below combines several sizes of pin loom weavies with 12" triangles made with a Hazel Rose triloom. This is a great combination of looms because is allows you to move away from the constraint of grid patterns by building in a 90 degree rotation.

Please let me hear about your favorite use of pin looms-- with or without the involvement of other looms.